The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Mr. WooDEoUsE, of Binghamton, y. Y, has
recovered $500 damages from 4 man who per-
sisted in calling him Mr. Woodshed.
ELLIOTT ARMSTRONG. of Jackson, Mich has
q single grapevine shoot 16 feet long and 10
months old which has seventy large punches OF
grapes on it.
AT Seattle recently 500 women were registered
as voters, despite the ruling of the courts some
time ago that women are not voters IN Washing
ton Territory.
LAST WEEK a 20-foot-long shark was found
high and dry on the beach at Savin Rock,
Conn 1t is supposed to have been tossed ashore
during the storm of the night before.
THE next Congress. it is stated, will contain
more than a dozen members who are or were
owners or writers on newspapers, including
Hit, of Illinois, who is an old shorthand re-
porter.
4 DISPATCH from st. Louis says that on Sun
day 5000 people in that town witnessed game
of base ball, and only two of them were pros.
trated by the heat, although the mercury stood
at 1859 in the shade. Of the people who did not
go TO the ball game 100 were Frustrated ana 10
died.
For sunstroke the simplest remedies are
cold bath and ice applications; for heat exhaus-
ton rest and tonic are the best remedies; Tor
heat apoplexy any treatment aimed at drawing
| the blood from the brain is the most useful IL
| the most speedy recovery.
THE triumph of the military department Of
the Krupp establishment is the 1-ton gun,
| ''the most powerful breech- loading cannon ever
| constructed on the continent of Europe. This
weapon is 30 feet inches long, and IS 20 inches
| inside diameter oIsbore. 1t holds 49, POUNDS
| of powder and carries an iron shell Of 11US.S
| pounds.
| THE Yezidis are the Kurdish devil worship
ers" They have no ceremonial additions. or
attach no importance to them and are allowed
| to use nothing colored blue. They will not sit
| down on a sofa having blue tassel or enter a
room containing an article Of furniture covered
| with blue cloth. Their religion prohibits them
| from serving as soldiers, though there appears
| to be nothing to prevent them from cutting
| threats on their own account
| JULIAN f. DEEIsoN of New Haven, Conn, has
| made an important invention in electric light
| ing His device consists of an apparatus where
| by burnt out carbons are automatically replaced
as fast as need be. BY his design an electric
| light will burn steadily for ninety hours or more
| without the need Of any attention. Mr. Denison
| is hardly more than boy in years, and his
| clever invention has created astonishment
| among those who have examined it.
THE women's jubilee Offering TO the Queen
somewhat puzzled Burmese ladies who were
asked to join in the royal gift. Why should
| their sovereign want money" they inquired,
especially SO soon after the annexation of Bur
| mah?' Has she no rice:" and Can it be that
she has no tobacco?' were frequent inquiries
| For, all Burmese ladies smoke several cheroots
| daily, they became deeply sympathetic at the
| idea that their queen should be without the
solace Of tobacco amid her State cares.
A TERRIBLE STORY from Kurrachee illustrates
the dangers to which man who runs amuck''
exposes his neighbors. A sepoy with forty
| rounds of ammunition broke loose among his
comrades at O'Clock in the morning He shot
| two follow sepoys, four shopkeepers. who were
| lying asleep outside their shops, and five cart
men. The regiment turned out in pursuit of
him. and be took refuge in stone enclosure.
| After firing manY rounds at his pursuerS, he f.
naly shot himself through the heart. All of his
| victims died
THE Orland (Cal) Nc'cs is authority for the
following. Mrs. H. ]. Hicks was attempting to
break up an old speckled hen from setting, aud
threw from the nest the two or three eggs
which were in it. One broke and showed
young chicken. She picked it up and discov-
cred 1t had four legs and six wings, The legs
behind were formed in the usual manner, but
just below, where the wings ordinarily are
were two legs with the claws reversed The
wings began at about their usual place, and
back of the first pair were two other pair.
In treating q negro in Leipsc for an liberated
affection it was found necessary to replace por
tons of the skin with pieces taken from one or
two white persons. These latter pieces gradu
ally grew darker in color, and finally as black as
the patient own skin This singular fact led
to an experiment being made of transposing
portions of black skin on white patient, and it
was found that after few weeks these began
to grow pale In less than fourteen weeks they
had in fact, grown so white as not to be distn-
guishable from the patients natural Skin.
TUE GREAT AUX, a seabrd, was once quite
abundant in the northern waters of the Atlantic
but is now believed to be totally extinct. For
the past thirty-five years no living specimens
have been seen. and there are few remains in
the museums of the world. The United States
Fish Commission schooner Grampus is on anex-
petition, one of the principal objects of which
is to gather such skeletons, eggs, and other re-
mains of this curious bird rs can he found. On
July u she stopped at 81. Johns, n. F.. and re-
ported that they had been quite slIcccssful so
far Three days later she continued her voyage
A BOOK has been published at Richmond on
'Pocahontas and Her Descendants" It gives a
history of Pocahontas, alias Mataoca, and her
descendants through her marriage at James
| town, Va, in April, 1914, with John Rolfe, gen.
| tleman, including the names of Alfriend, Ar
cher, Bentley. Bernard, Bland Boiling, Branch
Cabell. Catlett Gary, cambridge. Dixon Doug
las, Duval Eldridge. Elicit. Ferguson Field
| Fleming. Gay, Gordon, Griffin, Grayson, Harr-
son. HUBBARD, Lewis, Logan, Markham, Meade,
McRae. Murray, Page, Poythress, Randolph,
| Robertson. Skipwith Stanard, Tazewell Walk
West. White and, others, with biographical
sketches.
CLOCK recently patented in France is an
imitation of tambourine, on the parchment
head of which is painted a circle of flowers,
corresponding to the hour figures of ordinary
dials. On examination two bees, one large and
the other small are discovered crawling among
the flowers. The small bee runs rapidly from
one flower to another completing the circle in
an hour. while the large one takes twelve hours
to complete the circuit. The parchment sur
face is mbroken, and The bees simply laid upon
it, but two magnets connected with the clock
work inside the tQnbourine move just under
the membrane, and the insects, which are Of
iron, follow them.
The Imperial bell of Cologne, one of the larg-
est in the world, is famous not alone for its di-
mansions and its powerful sound, but still more
for its observation-disclosures For now upwards of
| four years its bronze mouth has not spoken in
fact, the bell has never yet invited the faithful
| to soryice. because it remains thus far unbessed
| by thr church, although the present incumbent
of the Arch episcopal See has resided nearly two
| years within the shadow of the dome. Quite
| recently the architect of the cathedral formally
| Appealed to the ecclesiastical dignitary DR.
| Krementz, who, however, lays the blame to the
| government authorities. In turn the Minister
| of Worship has since been addressed on the
| subject Of the bell. and it is now believed that
| he will ere long, take the necessary steps to
| have it solemnly consccrated
MINERS are superstitous as well as sailors. A
well known contractor was telling the casual of
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